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Lambda Legal’s Kevin Cathcart Looks Forward

Lambda Legal’s Kevin Cathcart Looks Forward

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In the LGBT civil rights struggle that will surely stretch years into the future, Kevin Cathcart must be counted a long-term player. In 1992, “happily living in Boston,” where he had run the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) since 1984, he was tapped to lead what was then known [...]

May 23, 20121 CommentRead More

Queer Youth of Color Complain of West Village Stop and Frisk

Queer Youth of Color Complain of West Village Stop and Frisk

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Sitting on the West Village piers on a sunny Friday afternoon, Tamir Tanner scowled when the New York City Police Department (NYPD) practice of stopping and frisking was mentioned. “It’s just not fair,” the 27-year-old said. “It’s really not fair to anybody to be stopped and frisked.” Tanner estimated that he [...]

May 23, 2012No CommentRead More

FDA Committee Urges Pre-Exposure HIV Drug

FDA Committee Urges Pre-Exposure HIV Drug

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | An advisory committee of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the regulatory agency approve the use of Truvada, an anti-HIV drug, for HIV-negative people in certain risk groups to prevent them from becoming infected with the AIDS virus. On May 10, the 22-member Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee voted [...]

May 23, 2012No CommentRead More

Failed Juvenile Intervention Led to Anti-Gay Murder Charge

Failed Juvenile Intervention Led to Anti-Gay Murder Charge

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE |  Luis Tabales first appeared in Queens Family Court in April of 2010. Then 15, he had been arrested for weapons possession, criminal mischief, and reckless endangerment. He was arrested for attempted burglary 12 days later. John M. Hunt, the Family Court judge who heard the case, found that he was a [...]

May 23, 2012No CommentRead More

Dharun Ravi Sentenced to 30 Days in Rutgers Webcam Spying

Dharun Ravi Sentenced to 30 Days in Rutgers Webcam Spying

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Dharun Ravi, a 20-year-old former Rutgers University student, convicted on March 16 in connection with incidents in September 2010 in which he used a webcam on his dormitory room computer to spy on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, was sentenced to 30 days in jail, three years of probation, 300 hours [...]

May 21, 20126 CommentsRead More

In Highline’s Shadow, Christine Quinn Weds Kim Catullo

In Highline’s Shadow, Christine Quinn Weds Kim Catullo

BY PAUL SCHINDLER |  In the highest profile same-sex wedding since marriage equality became a reality in New York State last July, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn married her partner of a decade, attorney Kim Catullo, in an early evening ceremony on May 19 at the Highline Stages in Chelsea. In fact, the wedding of [...]

May 19, 20123 CommentsRead More

House Jettisons LGBT, Immigrant Protections from Women’s Violence Bill

House Jettisons LGBT, Immigrant Protections from Women’s Violence Bill

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a 222-205 vote on May 16, the US House of Representatives approved a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that stripped out protections for LGBT domestic abuse victims that had been included in the Senate version passed on April 26 in a bipartisan 68-31 vote. Twenty-two Republicans voted [...]

May 16, 2012No CommentRead More

This Could Happen to You

This Could Happen to You

Actors Shane Bitney Crone and Tom Bridegroom lived together in Los Angeles, where they had been lovers for six years. In 2010, Tom gave Shane a promise ring, and the two planned to marry when they legally could do so in California. On May 7 of last year, Tom, doing a model photo shoot on [...]

May 16, 20121 CommentRead More

Obama’s Marriage Equality Embrace and States’ Prerogatives

Obama’s Marriage Equality Embrace and States’ Prerogatives

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | In his dramatic May 9 interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts, in which he announced his support for the right of same-sex couples to marry, President Barack Obama said, “I have to tell you that part of my hesitation on this has also been I didn’t want to nationalize the issue. [...]

May 16, 2012No CommentRead More

Romney Now the One Whose Position Confounds

Romney Now the One Whose Position Confounds

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE  |  It is understandable if lesbian and gay voters were confused by Mitt Romney’s reaction to President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage. “I do not favor marriage between people of the same gender, and I do not favor civil unions if they are identical to marriage other than by name,” he [...]

May 15, 2012No CommentRead More

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